From the jacket: “ At fifteen Eloise is married off to a man twice her age and taken to his forlorn castle in the mountains. Thomas, a trobar (troubadour), and his companion, a juggler known as Babel , make their way from village to village, from tavern to castle, singing and entertaining. While peasants work the fields, knights hunt and fight and joust, monks pray the hours of the day, and the seasons turn, Eloise and Thomas, separated as children, reunite.
In a tapestry of voices imbued with romantic passion, Leigh Sauerwein tells a medieval take of doomed love, evoking the richness and texture, mystery and wonder of life in the twelfth century.
In a tapestry of voices imbued with romantic passion, Leigh Sauerwein tells a medieval take of doomed love, evoking the richness and texture, mystery and wonder of life in the twelfth century.